Sublime weekend at Nelson Ledges

Sublime weekend at Nelson Ledges

GARRETTSVILLE

Sublime Weekend VI will be Sept. 24-26 at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, 12001 Nelson Ledges Road. The concert event features Badfish and The Tripping Billies, the premiere tribute bands for Sublime and Dave Matthews Band, respectively. Admission is $50 for Friday through Sunday, or $40 for Saturday through Sunday. There is no extra charge for camping.

For more information, go to nlqp.com.

Penn State campus plans pumpkin fest

SHARON, Pa.

Penn State Shenango will host a Fall Pumpkin Festival on Vine Avenue, downtown, Sept. 17-19, featuring rides, games and food vendors. Hours will be 6 to 11 p.m. Sept. 17; 1 to 11 p.m. Sept. 18; and 1 to 10 p.m. Sept. 19. Pre-sale ride tickets are available for $15 in room 103 of Sharon Hall. The event is sponsored by the Student Government Association. Proceeds will support the organization’s programs.

The SGA will sell pumpkins and have a pie bake-off and pumpkin carving contests. There will also be a children’s area with pumpkin painting and other activities.

For more info, go to shenango.psu.edu/studentlife.

Museum to honor John Wayne’s son

INDIANA, Pa.

Actor Patrick Wayne is being honored later this year by a western Pennsylvania museum dedicated to actor Jimmy Stewart.

At an Oct. 23 ceremony Wayne will receive one of the museum’s Harvey Awards for himself and another for his late father, western movie star John Wayne.

The James M. Stewart Museum Foundation is based in Stewart’s hometown, Indiana, Pa., about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

Patrick Wayne appeared in the movie “Shenandoah” with Stewart. His father appeared in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and “The Shootist” with Stewart.

Past Harvey Award winners include June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Shirley Jones, Ernest Borgnine and Rich Little. The award is named for the 1950 film in which Stewart befriends an invisible rabbit.

Met adds theaters to opera broadcasts

NEW YORK

The close-ups were so tight you could see a tear slowly trickling down the tenor’s face. It was a live performance of The Metropolitan Opera, broadcast to hundreds of theaters worldwide in a program so popular that America’s pre-eminent opera house is expanding it to 1,500 venues in 46 countries. That’s 300 more than last year, including an additional 100 theaters in the U.S., to bring the domestic total to 620.

Egypt, Portugal and Spain are among countries that will now get the high-definition satellite simulcasts that draw more than 2 million spectators a year, some munching on popcorn after nabbing tickets at $18 to $25 a pop.

Seeing the show in person costs $30 to $330.

A dozen live transmissions are slated for the fifth season of the HD telecasts, starting Oct. 9 with a much-awaited new production, Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” directed by Robert Lepage.